Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 8-1-1947 Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947)." , (1947). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/181 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. XUQfr JNftr o 10 I s vation Army Band, has retired, after an AARON COPLAND’S Third Symphony unbroken record of sixty-four years’ serv- and Ernest Bloch’s Second Quartet have ice as Bandmaster in the Salvation Army. won the Award of the Music Critics Cir- cle of New York as the outstanding music American orchestral and chamber THE SALZBURG FESTI- BEGINNERS heard for the first time in New York VAL, which opened on PIANO during the past season. YOUNG July 31, witnessed an im- FOB portant break with tra- JOHN ALDEN CARPEN- dition when on August TER, widely known con- 6 the world premiere of KEYBOARD TOWN temporary American Gottfried von Einem’s composer, has been opera, “Danton’s Tod,” By Louise Robyn awarded the 1947 Gold was produced. Prior to A PLEASURE PATH Gottfried technic tales Medal of the National this it had been the von Einem new field in the TO THE PIANO book one This book covers a child's early Institute of Arts and policy of the Salzburg training, for it supplies a link that coordinates THE PRE-SCHOOL CHILD) Letters for “his distin- Festival to present only established (FOB and fingers, and enables the Louise Robyn eyes, ears child guished service in the works. Von Einem is Austria's outstand- Perry By read notes fluently within By Josephine Hovey actually to a sur- field of music.” The ing young composer, and “Danton’s Tod” grade short period. The book is not with any first prisingly an medal is awarded for is his first opera. Otto Klemperer con- very young- be used in conjunction fascinating study book for the May experiment—its material and principles have This piano. It cootunst music only once every nine years. Mr. ducted the performance. piano starts as a rote-playing book for the est student of the instruction been tested and proven for many years. Be- Carpenter studied under John Paine, plays a first yea P K. the child (a) sings and principles in DR. EVANGELINE LEHMAN, noted Amer- LASZLO HALASZ, director of the New took Wherein fifteen essential ginning with MIDDLE C the note-names are Ziehn. what has been so that his Edward Elgar, and Bernard He NICK BOLIN, a Hollywood composer, is selection by rote, (b) reads up the child's hand story-element ican author-composer, has been made an York City Opera Company, has been en- Gradually the Sc, building introduced with the which per- has written orchestral works and miscel- the winner of the Gershwin Memorial and finally, (c) writes it abil ty, played, equals his mus.c-reading each note with its own note-name. The Honorary Member of the National Mu- gaged to conduct the summer opera sea- advanced until reading an finger dexterity sonifies laneous pieces. Award of one thousand dollars offered by young student is powers. Eac F* ' sic Fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota. The son presented in Montreal, Canada, by All of ‘ he ma interpretative pedagogic plan avoids the use of counting be- playing are welded into one. thus aiding his the Hollywood Bowl Association. His win- bookJ a feature system initiation took place in Detroit on May 28. the Montreal Festivals. Leopold Sachse, in story form and the in story element, cause of the "one-unit” employed terial ?s presented - ciple is introduced WILLIAM D. REVELLI, widely known ning composition, “California Sketches,” child director will illustrations that appeal to the throughout. More than seventy-five little melo- stage at the City Center, do abounds in and creates interest. authority on band music and Director of was given its first performance on July copy of brochure to the child's imagination directing imagination. Ask for FREE that appeals dies are included in this unique book. THE TENTH ANNUAL song contest for the stage for the Montreal procedure in Bands at the University of Michigan, re- 12, by Paul Whiteman in the Hollywood psychology, pedagogy and project. on the Price, 75 cents the W. W. Kimball prize of one hundred Bowl. teaching. Price, 75 cent* ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of pre-school piano TALES-BOOK ONE dollars, sponsored by the Chicago Singing TEACHER'S MANUAL TO TECHNIC Music at the annual commencement ex- Price, $1.00 book for the teacher. College, Teachers Guild, was won by Merle Kirk- HELEN TRAUBEL, leading Wagnerian is an indispensable ercises of the Chicago Musical man Jones of Chicago with his song, Deep Price. 75 cents held in June. Dr. Revelli is editor of the soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Asso- UliL Wet Moss. OLCLirJn FIRST CLASSICS AND Band and Orchestra Department of The ciation, has been elected to Honorary Etude. Membership in the International Mark EDWARD B. FLECK, concert pianist and THE HOUSE THAT FOUNDATION HARMONY GREAT BRITAIN’S annual music bill in- Twain Society, in honor of her contribu- teacher, died June 15, 1947, at Denver, HARMONY PIERINO GAMBA, nine-year-old Italian cluded about $600,000 paid to United tion to American Music. She was elected JACK BUILT THE ROBYN-HANKS (A 2ND YEAR BOOK TO FOUOW Colorado, where he had been active for boy prodigy, termed the “pocket Tosca- States composers of songs and dance mu- to the post formerly held by the late PLAYING IN book one FOLK SONGS AND FAMOUS the past thirty years. He was a native of (READING AND nini” won the cheers of an audience of sic for royalties and performing rights, Jerome Kern. OCTAVES) Robyn and Howard Hanks PICTURES") according to a recent statement Vienna, and studied at the Royal Con- 4 By Louise 5,000 in Paris on May 22, when he con- made by servatory of St. Petersburg with Anton Perry Mary Bacon Mason ducted the Lamoureux Orchestra in a Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dal- By Josephine Hovey By THE JUDGES of the Lili Boulanger Rubinstein. concert of works by Rossini, Mozart, ton to the House of Commons. Each classic Memorial Fund, Inc., have announced the This is a Schubert, and Beethoven. Conducting is in simpli- names of three young composers to whom SIR SYDNEY HUGO NICHOLSON, church s p 1 endid without any score, the diminutive maestro THE NEW YORK CITY Opera Company fied form with awards have been made. They are Michal musician and former organist at West- book for stirred the audience to such a pitch of will produce a revival of Massenet’s rass verses that Spisak and Antoni Szalowski, two Polish helping lit- minster Abbey, died May 30 at Ashford, i S<siss£ * •' that they “rose and called the "Werther” this fall with Winifred Heidt jraiM V of Music, Chicago. correspond to enthusiasm tle children in the American Conservatory composers now living in Paris, and Paul Kent, aged seventy-two. He was the teaching boy conductor back again and again.” and Eugene Conley in the principal roles of primary the spirit of Marais, a young American vet- Price, 75 cents Des war founder of the Royal School of Church ages the music and and with Jean Morel, French conductor, grade eran. Music at Chislehurst, Kent, and was ac- to learn to accord with LAURITZ MELCHIOR and his wife, in charge. Laszlo Halasz will have the di- rhythm. tive in raising the efficiency of church read music its whom he affectionately calls “Kleinchen,” rection of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and PICTURES early choirs. notation FOLK SONGS AND FAMOUS The have recently become American citizens. which also is to have a revival. ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI’S latest opera, keyboard that which lays a foundation to play on the piano FOR PIANO BEGINNERS study of this material “L’Oro,” which was originally scheduled read. By means of note, key, and appreciation of the best in music. WILLIAM MATHEWS SULLIVAN, patron they for THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of Mexico, for performance at Florence, Italy, in very clear the rela- book is de- York City. finger charts it makes R)tk3ona-,.»i>EimousSVmiV' The second portion of the AN EIGHT-DAY festival of Bach music of music, died May 30 at New CHARTS & CUT-OUT CARDS under its founder-conductor, 1943, has been presented at long last, both the notes on the imurx INCLUDES COLOR presented Carlos tion of the position of Tor flu no voted to elementary harmony was held in June in Strasbourg, Alsace. Mr. Sullivan founded the Dunrovin Mu- piano. There ate Chavez, opened its twentieth season in at La Scala in Milan and at the Opera in staff to the keys of the use of games and cut-out Festival in at his estate in (Wnr By Mary Bacon Mason through the The Strasbourg Municipal Orchestra was sic 1938, charming illustrations accompany- book June at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico Rome. The composer conducted both per- many fW cards. This book is a second-year conducted by Otto Klemperer, in the Ridgefield, Connecticut.